..This relationship remained after controlling for HIV and concurrent cryptosporidiosis. Children with microsporidiosis were predicted to weigh 1.3 kg less than children without microsporidiosis at 5 years of age...

..We developed methodology for and conducted a meta-analysis to examine how seasonal patterns of cryptosporidiosis, a primarily waterborne diarrheal illness, relate to precipitation and temperature fluctuations worldwide...

Geographic variations and temporal trends of Salmonella-associated hospitalization in the U.S. elderly, 1991-2004: a time series analysis of the impact of HACCP regulation

Kenneth K H ChuiDepartment of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USABMC Public Health 9:447. 2009

..Impact evaluations of PR/HACCP on hospitalizations related to Salmonella are lacking...

Childhood Hib vaccination and pneumonia and influenza burden in US seniors

Steven A CohenDepartment of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA stevenVaccine 28:4462-9. 2010

..The consistent associations between influenza in the elderly and vaccination coverage in children suggest that routine vaccination of children may impart some indirect protection to the elderly...

The effect of Helicobacter pylori infection on growth velocity in young children from poor urban communities in Ecuador

..We also present spatial and temporal associations between the two measurements the SIMPLE method produces...

Visual analytics for epidemiologists: understanding the interactions between age, time, and disease with multi-panel graphs

Kenneth K H ChuiDepartment of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of AmericaPLoS ONE 6:e14683. 2011

..We propose a graphical tool that can reveal the distribution of an outcome by time and age simultaneously...

Snowbirds and infection--new phenomena in pneumonia and influenza hospitalizations from winter migration of older adults: a spatiotemporal analysis

Kenneth K H ChuiDepartment of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USABMC Public Health 11:444. 2011

..Given the high seasonal migration of individuals to Florida, this state was examined more closely using harmonic regression to assess spatial and temporal patterns of P&I hospitalizations by state of residence...

Defining outbreak: breaking out of confusion

Eileen A O'NeilDepartment of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USAJ Public Health Policy 28:442-55. 2007

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The elderly and waterborne Cryptosporidium infection: gastroenteritis hospitalizations before and during the 1993 Milwaukee outbreak

Elena N NaumovaDepartment of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USAEmerg Infect Dis 9:418-25. 2003

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Daily variations in effluent water turbidity and diarrhoeal illness in a Russian city

Andrey I EgorovTufts University School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USAInt J Environ Health Res 13:81-94. 2003

Andrey I EgorovDepartment of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USAJ Public Health Policy 26:69-74. 2005

Effect of precipitation on seasonal variability in cryptosporidiosis recorded by the North West England surveillance system in 1990-1999

Elena N NaumovaDepartment of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USAJ Water Health 3:185-96. 2005

..The endemic level and the magnitude of epidemic peaks were inversely related, which might be indicative of multiple exposures to the pathogen in these localities and the development of some partial immunity...

Childhood overweight and maturational timing in the development of adult overweight and fatness: the Newton Girls Study and its follow-up

Aviva MustDepartment of Public Health and Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USAPediatrics 116:620-7. 2005

..Although several studies have suggested that early menarche is associated with the development of adult overweight, few have accounted for childhood overweight before menarche...

INFERNO: a system for early outbreak detection and signature forecasting

..We examined the longitudinal relationship of physical activity, inactivity, and screen time with relative weight status and percentage body fat (%BF) and explored how it differed by parental overweight status...

Emergency room visits for respiratory conditions in children increased after Guagua Pichincha volcanic eruptions in April 2000 in Quito, Ecuador observational study: time series analysis

Elena N NaumovaDepartment of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston MA 02111, USAEnviron Health 6:21. 2007

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Mystery of seasonality: getting the rhythm of nature

Elena N NaumovaDepartment of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USAJ Public Health Policy 27:2-12. 2006

..This paper will introduce the notion of seasonality by outlining several of its factors, using as illustrations respiratory and enteric water- or food-borne infections...

Relationship of childhood behavior disorders to weight gain from childhood into adulthood

..However, these relationships have not been studied longitudinally from childhood to adulthood. We investigated childhood to adulthood weight change associated with attention-deficit and disruptive behavior disorders...

A community intervention reduces BMI z-score in children: Shape Up Somerville first year results

..To assess whether adolescent obesity is associated with risk for development of major depressive disorder (MDD) or anxiety disorder. Obesity has been linked to psychosocial difficulties among youth...

Grandparental caregiving, income inequality and respiratory infections in elderly US individuals

Steven A CohenDepartment of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Stearns 203D, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USAJ Epidemiol Community Health 65:246-53. 2011

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Validity and reliability of a calcium checklist in early elementary-school children